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Favored Inflationary Models by Scalar Field Condensate Baryogenesis galaxies Article Favored Inflationary Models by Scalar Field Condensate Baryogenesis Daniela Kirilova * and Mariana Panayotova Institute of Astronomy with NAO Rozhen, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko shose Blvd., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +359-886-83-11-38 Abstract: We calculate the baryon asymmetry value generated in the Scalar Field Condensate (SCF) baryogenesis model obtained in several inflationary scenarios and different reheating models. We provide analysis of the baryon asymmetry value obtained for more than 70 sets of parameters of the SCF model and the following inflationary scenarios, namely: new inflation, chaotic inflation, Starobinsky inflation, MSSM inflation, quintessential inflation. We considered both cases of efficient thermalization after inflation and delayed thermalization. We have found that the SFC baryogenesis model produces baryon asymmetry orders of magnitude bigger than the observed one for the following inflationary models: new inflation, new inflation model by Shafi and Vilenkin, MSSM inflation, chaotic inflation with high reheating temperature and the simplest Shafi–Vilenkin chaotic inflationary model. Strong diluting mechanisms are needed for these models to reduce the resultant baryon excess at low energies to its observational value today. We have found that a successful generation of the observed baryon asymmetry is possible by the SCF baryogenesis model in Modified Starobinsky inflation, chaotic inflation with low reheating temperature, chaotic inflation in SUGRA, and Quintessential inflation. Keywords: early universe; models of inflation; SFC baryogenesis; reheating Citation: Kirilova, D.; Panayotova, M. Favored Inflationary Models by Scalar Field Condensate Baryogenesis. Galaxies 2021, 9, 49. https://doi.org/ 1. Introduction 10.3390/galaxies9030049 The inflationary paradigm for the description of the very early Universe is already more than 30 years old; however, there still exist numerous models of inflation [1]. More- Academic Editor: Emilio Elizalde over, the reheating process at the end of inflation that is believed to have provided the transfer of the energy stored in the inflaton to other fields and thus enabled the beginning Received: 26 May 2021 of the radiation dominated stage of the Universe, could have also proceeded through Accepted: 6 July 2021 different mechanisms (perturbative [2], nonperturbative [3] (see also the discussion of Published: 10 July 2021 different reheating mechanisms in ref. [4])). Moreover, different decay channels and dif- ferent decay rates of the inflaton and other particles, and different thermalization models Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral (instant or delayed) are possible [5]. Therefore, it is interesting to consider the possibility with regard to jurisdictional claims in for production of the observed baryon asymmetry b ∼ 6 × 10−10 for different reheating published maps and institutional temperatures in different inflationary models. affiliations. In this work we analyze the baryon asymmetry generation according to the Scalar Field Condensate (SFC) baryogenesis model for several inflationary scenarios and different reheating models. Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe This article is an open access article The generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is one of the open cosmolog- distributed under the terms and ical issues. Both cosmic ray data and gamma ray data indicate that there are no significant conditions of the Creative Commons quantities of antimatter in the local vicinity up to galaxy cluster scales of 10–20 Mpc [6–10]. Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// It is most probable that our universe is made of matter. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). Galaxies 2021, 9, 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies9030049 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxies Galaxies 2021, 9, 49 2 of 10 The baryon asymmetry is usually described by: b = (Nb − Nb¯ )/Ng ∼ Nb/Ng = h, (1) where Nb is the number of baryons, Nb¯ is the number of anti-baryons, Ng - the number of photons. The baryon-to-photon ratio h is precisely measured today, namely: h ∼ 6 × 10−10, (2) the best baryometers being BBN and CMB measurements. Deuterium is the most sensitive to h among the light elements produced during BBN. Thus, the most precisely obtained h, based on BBN theory and D observations is [11]: −10 hD = 6 ± 0.3 × 10 at 95% C.L. The CMB anisotropy data measures h with comparative accuracy, namely (see ref. [12]): −10 hCMB = 6.11 ± 0.04 × 10 at 68% C.L. Although these independent measurements correspond to quite distant epochs, namely BBN proceeds at z ∼ 109, while CMB at z ∼ 1000 they are in excellent agreement, i.e., there was no change in this ratio between the two epochs. At present there exist many baryogenesis models which successfully generate this number at quite different epochs: in the wide range between the end of inflation and before BBN. Just to mention the most popular ones: GUT baryogenesis [13,14], SUSSY baryogenesis, baryogenesis through leptogenesis [15], Afleck and Dine baryogenesis [16], Scalar Field Condensate baryogenesis (SFC) [2,17], warm baryogenesis [18], Gravitational baryogenesis in Einstein’s gravity [19] and in modified gravity theories [20–22], etc. In the next section we provide a short description of the SFC baryogenesis model. In the third section we present our results for the calculated baryon asymmetry b in different inflationary scenarios and different reheating models. In the conclusion we list the main results and present a short discussion. 2. SFC Short Description First ideas on the SFC baryogenesis model and the analytical construction of that model were presented in Refs. [2,17]. In following publications an inhomogeneous SFC baryogenesis model was explored semi-analytically, and was applied to explain the very large scale structure in the universe and the quasi-periodicity found at very large scales with typical period of 128 h−2 Mpc [23–25]. Since the first analytical considerations [2] it is known that particle creation processes play an important role for the determination of the baryon asymmetry generation in that model. Recently, a more precise numerical account of particle creation processes and their role in SFC baryogenesis was provided in Refs. [26–28]. According to theSCF baryogenesis model at the inflationary stage there existed the inflaton y and a complex scalar field j, carrying baryon charge. During inflation, as a result of the rise of quantum fluctuations of j, a condensate < j >6= 0 with a nonzero baryon charge B is formed [29–31]. B is not conserved at large j due to the presence of B non-conserving (BV) self-interaction terms in the potential V(j). The equation of motion of j is: 1 j¨ + 3Hj˙ + G j˙ + U0 = 0, (3) 4 j j where a(t) is the scale factor, H is the Hubble parameter H = a˙/a. Gj = aW is the rate of particle creation, W = 2p/T, where T is the period of the field oscillations. The analytically 1/2 estimated value: W0 = l j0, is used as an initial condition for the frequency. Galaxies 2021, 9, 49 3 of 10 The baryon charge is given by: B = −i(j˙ ∗ j − jj˙ ∗). (4) The potential is chosen of the form: l l l U(j) = m2 j2 + 1 jjj4 + 2 (j4 + j∗4) + 3 jjj2(j2 + j∗2). (5) 2 4 4 The following natural assumptions are made: the mass parameters of the potential are small in comparison with the Hubble parameter during inflation m HI, the self-coupling 2 4 constants li are of the order of the gauge coupling constant a, and m is in the range 10 –10 4 GeV. The energy density of j at the inflationary stage is of the order HI , hence max −1/4 2 3 jo ∼ HI l , j˙o = (HI ) , B0 = HI . (6) At the end of the inflationary stage j starts to oscillate around its equilibrium. Its am- plitude decreases due to the Universe expansion and due to the particle creation processes, 2 resultant from the coupling of the scalar field to fermions gj f1 f2, where g /4p = aGUT. In the SFC baryogenesis model, B contained in the condensate, can be reduced consid- erably due to particle creation at the BV stage [17,32]. Therefore, at the stage, when baryon violation is large, B contained in j condensate, is reduced due to particle production. Here we provide numerical account for the particle creation processes of j. BV be- comes negligible at small j. B which survives until B-conservation epoch tB, is transferred to fermions and thus the excess of matter over antimatter is produced. We have provided a numerical analysis [26,27,32,33] of the evolution of the real and imaginary components of j, j(t) = x + iy, and of B(t) from the inflationary stage until tB. We developed a computer program in Fortran 77 using 4th order Runge–Kutta method. The system of ordinary differential equations, corresponding to the equation of motion for the real and imaginary part of j and B was solved calculating W at each step. The nu- merical analysis included around 100 sets of parameters in their natural ranges of values: −3 −2 7 12 −3 −2 a = 10 − 5 × 10 , HI = 10 − 10 GeV, m = 100 − 1000 GeV, l1 = 10 − 5 × 10 , −4 −2 l2,3 = 10 − 5 × 10 . All HI values considered in our calculations are in agreement with −5 1/2 the observational constraint from Planck data, namely: HI < 3.7 × 10 MPl/(8p) . For each set of the SFC baryogenesis model parameters we have calculated the final B contained in the condensate j(t) before its decay. The dependence of the produced B on the parameters of the models (namely m, HI, li and a) were revealed in our analysis. The produced baryon asymmetry b in SFC baryogenesis model depends on the generated baryon excess B, the reheating temperature of the universe TR and the value of the Hubble parameter at the end of inflation HI.
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